Iberia had a minor share in this Chilean airline and Ladeco was an Iberia Group member in the nineties. I am actually not sure wheter this later statement was already true in 1991 or not , but it certainly was a bit later, in 1992. Anyhow, there never was a good understanding between Iberia and other Ladeco owners, and finally the Spanish airline sold its shares in 1997; Ladeco became under ✈LAN Chile control, and it eventually changed its name into LAN Express before being completely deprived of a name or identity of its own and being shut down.

Brochures and promotional material from British Midland, an airlie which in the mid-1990s was partially owned by SAS and was trying hard to beat British Airways in its own field. These publications are a good example of what a small or medium-sized "independent" airline such as this one was offering in the 1990s as a full service company which seeking to take advantage of the liberalisation of the European air market. Some years later Lufthansa bought SAS' stake and the airline joined the Star Alliance, until eventually British Midland was bought by IAG and integrated into British Airways...

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